QEP Poster Session 2

P2.1	Novel Gold Nano-structured arrays for Plasmon Resonance Sensors A Sheridan, A Clark, A Glidle, J M Cooper, D Cumming University of Glasgow (UK)
P2.2	Optical Magnetic Mirror A S Schwanecke, Y Chen^1, V Fedotov, V Khardikov^2, S Prosvirnin^2, N Zheludev University of Southampton (Germany) ^1Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) ^2Institute of Radio Astronomy and Kharkov National University (Ukraine)
P2.3	Optical investigations of Porous Silicon coated with a-Si:H using PECVD P Rathinasamy, I Ferreira, H Aguas, E Fortunato, R Martins New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
P2.4	Novel configurations for a surface-plasmon optical sensor based on semiconductor light-emitting diodes P Porta, H Summers Cardiff University (UK)
P2.5	Negative and Positive Refraction in Photonic Crystal Structures C R Bennett, T J Shepherd QinetiQ (UK)
P2.6	Imaging of Enhanced Flourescence by nanostructured Gold Particles A Mac raighne, Y Rakovich, E Mc Cabe TCD (Republic of Ireland)
P2.7	Guidance Applied to Quantum Operations in Josephson Charge Qubits C Hill, J F Ralph, E Griffith University of Liverpool (UK)
P2.8	Rapid state purification in a superconducting charge qubit E J Griffith, CD Hill, J F Ralph, K Jacobs^1, H M Wiseman^2 University of Liverpool (UK) ^1Louisiana State University (USA) ^2Griffith University (Australia)
P2.9	Spatially and temporally resolved phase matching calculations for high harmonic generation in a capillary E T Rogers, M Praeger, S Stebbings, A de Paula, C A Froud, B Mills, J Baumberg, D C Hanna, W S Brocklesby, J G Frey University of Southampton (UK)
P2.10	Optical properties of noble-metallic nanoparticle chains embedded in a graded- index host K W Yu, J J Xiao Chinese University of Hong Kong (PR China)
P2.11	Linewidth Enhancement Factor in Compressively Strained Single- and multiple-layer InGaAsP Quantum Wire Lasers M Khayer, A Haque^1 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh) ^1East West University (Bangladesh)
P2.12	Theoretical modelling of the effect of well width on the absorption spectrum of quantum dots-in-a-well infrared photodetectors N Vukmirovic, D Indjin, Z Ikonic, P Harrison University of Leeds (UK)
P2.13	Study of Phase Retardation in Subwavelength Metal Gratings R Zheng, P Lambkin, P Hughes^1 Tyndall National Institute (Republic of Ireland) ^1SensL (Republic of Ireland)
P2.14	Nonlinear plasmonics in a gallium/aluminium nano-composite K MacDonald, A Krasavin, B F Soares, M Bashevoy, F Jonsson, N Zheludev University of Southampton (UK)
P2.15	Polarization properties of metal films under anomalously enhanced transmission conditions A Kats, M Nesterov, A Nikitin Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of NAS Ukraine (Ukraine)
P2.16	Scattering of light from nanostructures K Holms, F Papoff Strathclyde University (UK)
P2.17	Dispersion properties of subwavelength waveguide formed by silver nanorods N Giannakis, J Inglesfield^1, P Belov, Y Zhao, Y Hao Queen Mary University of London (UK) ^1Cardiff University (UK)
P2.18	Dissipative solitons and generalised nonlinear excitations in negative phase velocity metamaterials A D Boardman, N King, Y Rapoport^1 University of Salford (UK) ^1National Taras Shevchenko University (Ukraine)
P2.19	Operation of multi-mode 2 micron Tm-silica fibre lasers with in-band pumping Y Tsang, T A King The University of Manchester (UK)
P2.20	Quantum-dot Based Saturable Absorber for Femtosecond Modelocked Operation of a Solid-state Laser A McWilliam, A Lagatsky, C Brown, W Sibbett, A Zhukov^1, V Ustinov^1, A Vasil'ev^1, E Rfailov^2 University of St Andrews (UK) ^1Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg (Russia) ^2University of Dundee (UK)
P2.21	A model of a QCW diode pumped passively Q-switched solid state laser C Mercer, Y Tsang, D Binks The University of Manchester (UK)
P2.22	Thermal management in disk lasers: doped-dielectric and semiconductor laser gain media in thin-disk and microchip formats A J Kemp, A J Maclean, J-M Hopkins, J E Hastie, S Calvez, M D Dawson, D Burns University of Strathclyde (UK)
P2.23	High Power Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation in Vertical External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers at 1060nm A Maclean, A Kemp, J Kim^1, K Kim^1, T Kim^1, D Burns University of Strathclyde (UK) ^1Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (South Korea)
P2.24	Characterisation of Extended Cavity alpha-Distributed Feedback Laser at 1062 nm W A Syed, J Shy^1 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (Pakistan) ^1National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
P2.25	Frequency-doubling of a continuous-wave red VECSEL to produce 100mW at 337nm L G Morton, J Hastie, M D Dawson, A Krysa^1, J Roberts^1 University of Strathclyde (UK) ^1University of Sheffield (UK)
P2.26	Efficient near 3 micron dysprosium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser pumped with near 1.1 micron Yb-doped fiber laser A El-Taher, Y Tsang, D Binks, T A King, S Jackson^1 The University of Manchester (UK) ^1The Tniversity of Sydney (Australia)
P2.27	Polarization properties of spatial emission structures of broad-area vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers T Ackemann, N Loiko^1, I Babushkin^2, M Schulz-Ruhtenberg^3, K Huang^4 University of Strathclyde (UK) ^1Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus) ^2Max-Born Institut (Germany) ^3Universitaet Muenster (Germany) ^4National Chiao Tung University, (Taiwan)
P2.28	Giant excess noise in asymmetric lasers and gain-guides W J Firth, E Wright^1, A Yao University of Strathclyde (UK) ^1University of Arizona (USA)
P2.29	Transparency in Atomically-Doped Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguides A Kanaki, V Yannopapas^1, E Paspalakis^2 University of Patras (Greece)
P2.30	Performance and operations of the 100TW beamline of the HELEN laser N W Hopps, M Girling, D I Hillier, M F Kopec, J R Nolan, D Winter AWE plc (UK)
P2.31	Modeling and theory involving metamaterial photonic structures A D Boardman, N King, L Velasco University of Salford (UK)
P2.32	Measurement and modelling of the effect of velocity changing collisions on the Dicke Narrowing in water G Duxbury, N J Langford, S Wright, T McCulloch University of Strathclyde (UK)
P2.33	Geometrical Technique for Closed Loop 3-Dimensional Laser Forming E Abed, S Edwardson, G Dearden, K Watkins The University of Liverpool (UK)
P2.34	Applications of Acousto-Optic Devices To Spectral Imaging Systems J Ward, C N Pannell^1, E S Wachman^2, W Seale^3 Gooch & Housego PLC (UK) ^1Optronic Labs. Inc (USA) ^2ChromoDynamics Inc. (USA) ^3NEOS Technologies Ltd (USA)
P2.35	Quantum interference with photon pairs using two seperated micro-structured fibres J Fulconis, O Alibart, W Wadsworth, J G Rarity University of Bristol (UK)
P2.36	Analysis and fabrication of nanometer scale waveguide splitter junction in high-index Silicon-On-Insulator Optical waveguides D Goldring, U Levy^1, H Sanderovich, D Mendlovic Tel-Aviv University (Israel) ^1The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
P2.37	Effect of nanoparticle composition on the performance of photorefractive polymer/semiconductor nanoparticle composites F Aslam, J Stevenson-Hill, D J Binks, S Daniels, N L Pickett, P O’Brien University of Manchester (UK)